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To: Elsie
The Bible states that
Psalm 50:10 For every beast of the forest is mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills.
Do you think that is the literal 1000 hills only?

One thousand as used in biblical books from psalms to the book of Revelation - an especially in the book of the apocalypse which is filled with numers as symbols - one thousand means "man" - or "completely all" -- 1000 = 10 x 10 x 10 -> so as per Judaic numerology, a complete and perfect number.

God owns all the cattle on all the hills in all the valleys which number far more than a thousand.

One thousand cubits is used symbolically four times as the depth of water flowing from below the threshold of the temple (Ezekiel 47:3-6).

In addition you see the symbolic usage of one thousand in Deuteronomy 7:9, Psalm 84:10, 90:4, 91:7, 105:8

This was clearly "very large" not a precise 1000 .

662 posted on 05/23/2022 12:58:16 AM PDT by Cronos
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To: Cronos
Do you think that is the literal 1000 hills only?

Call no man father seems to be quite unfocused as well.

I'll leave, "This is my body..." for another time.

665 posted on 05/23/2022 5:01:40 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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